- A simple thin white border around a table...

On IE, a simple bordercolor="#FFFFFF" applied in a TABLE tag will show a
thin white border, without embossing (that 3d effect that is on by default).
But in other browsers, it's that embossed outline (3d grey) that shows up.

What do I put in there for it to be plain white more universally, preferably
without using CSS (but if I have no choice, I'll use CSS)?

.oO(Jon Yeager)

On IE, a simple bordercolor="#FFFFFF" applied in a TABLE tag will show a
thin white border, without embossing (that 3d effect that is on by default).
But in other browsers, it's that embossed outline (3d grey) that shows up.

What do I put in there for it to be plain white more universally, preferably
without using CSS (but if I have no choice, I'll use CSS)?

Use CSS. There's no need for deprecated attributes anymore, except maybe
for 'cellspacing', because IE can't do that with CSS (doesn't support
the 'border-spacing' property).

The following applies a white border to the table. Without using a class
or ID it would apply the border to all tables on the page:

HTML:
<table class="foo">...</table>

CSS:
..foo {border: 1px solid #FFF}

Micha